Digiday Publishing Summit: Prices rise Aug. 5

Hear from execs at The New York Times, Thomson Reuters, Trusted Media Brands and many others

SECURE YOUR SEAT

Why the ad industry still isn’t ready for Google to remove third-party cookies in Chrome

This article is part of a series covering our Programmatic Marketing Summit. More from the series →

No, the ad industry as a whole is not prepared for the third-party cookie to go away. And it probably still won’t be in a year’s time if Google goes ahead with its plan to deprecate third-party cookies in Chrome by the end of 2024. That’s the assessment of programmatic advertising experts who attended the Digiday Programmatic Marketing Summit, held in New Orleans from Dec. 4 through 6.

In the video below, industry executives explain why they rate the overall industry’s post-cookie readiness so low and the major steps it still needs to take to be prepared for the cookie-pocalypse.

More in Marketing

search referral traffic for publishers

Search or social? Influencer marketing finds itself in the middle

The days of neatly separating search from social are over. Now, marketers are following creators into a space where discovery, influence and conversion all live on the same feeds.

Graphic of a dollar sign-shaped key unlocking a lock, symbolizing the key to unlocking successful performance marketing through the seven stages of development

‘It fundamentally changes what it means to be an e-commerce brand’: What a ChatGPT checkout system could mean for retail

Getting into the checkout game would be indicative of a different direction for OpenAI, which, back in December, said it had “no active plans to pursue advertising.”

Inside the C-Suite: Anthropologie launches Maeve as a new brand using influencers, TikTok and (of course) Substack

Brands have previously tipped their toes into editorial by launching whole media publications — think MEL Magazine from Dollar Shave Club or Here Magazine from Away.